Ciara Miller didn’t make it to Dedication Night on Dancing With the Stars Season 35, but if she had, viewers would have been in for a one-of-a-kind tribute.
The Summer House star, who also works as a model, had planned to honor one of the most meaningful parts of her life with a nod to her past work as a New York City intensive care unit nurse.
Miller’s DWTS partner Brandon Armstrong told People magazine that the reality TV beauty was “really in the mix” as an ICU nurse during the onset of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.
While Miller and Armstrong were eliminated from the ABC ballroom show in Week 4, they had planned to pay tribute to nurses during the Week 6 Dedication Night dance had they continued in the competition.
Armstrong revealed that he and Miller had already workshopped a nurse-centered routine based on the history of Florence Nightingale. In the 1850s, the Victorian-era nurse was known as “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War because she would check on wounded soldiers while holding a light in her hand, per the National Army Museum.
Of Miller’s now-scrapped DWTS dance, Armstrong told People it would have been “really special.”
“We were going to do this dance with this little light thing that people were holding and invite other nurses to come in,” he shared.
“I was really excited for that because I think sometimes life gets so glamorous and so fast,” the DWTS pro added. “But at the end of the day, the things that are important to you are your health and your family, and that’s what should be important to you. These people are making sure that those things stay around, your health and your family. So we wanted to dedicate it to the seams of society, the people that hold this all together.”
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Miller’s plan to focus on nurses would have shown viewers a new side of her rarely addressed on reality TV. Before joining Bravo’s Summer House in 2020, Miller graduated from Chamberlain University College of Nursing, then worked as an ICU and travel nurse for years.
In early 2026, Miller told The Squeeze podcast that she experienced major “burnout” during COVID and decided to “take a break” from nursing to film her first season of Summer House in the summer of 2020. She returned to nursing afterwards, but things changed when patients started to recognize her from reality TV.
In 2024, Miller appeared on the It’s Me, Tinx podcast and admitted it bothered her to distract patients or their family members from critical situations. “I never want to take away or be a distraction as to what’s going on in the unit,” she said.
Miller has said she feels like she may be “done with bedside” care but has not ruled out a return to nursing at some point.
“I think there’s a purpose for me outside of bedside, still in the nursing world,” the DWTS alum said on The Squeeze. “I still love the education and everything.”
Dancing with the Stars’ Dedication Night airs Tuesday, Oct. 20 on ABC and Disney+, with next-day streaming on Hulu.
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